Upcoming tour dates for Hiroshima:

May 1 Sunday, Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.

May 2 Monday, Birchmere, Alexandria, VA

May 3 Tuesday, Rams Head, Annapolis, MD

May 4 Wednesday, BB King’s, New York

May 19-22 Thurs-Sun, Kimball’s East, Oakland, CA

May 26, 27, 28 Thurs-Sun, Triple Door, Seattle, WA

June 4 Saturday, Huntington Beach Library Theatre, Huntington Beach, CA

June 5 Sunday, Thorton Winery, Temecula, CA

Aug 5 Friday, Verizon Wireless, Houston, TX

Aug 12 Friday, Long Beach Jazz Festival, Long Beach, CA

May 19, 2006 Friday, Cerritos Performing Art Center, Cerritos, CA

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Critical acclaim for OBON:

“If there is one band that you can count on to be consistent while
introducing new styles and sounds to its fans, it is Hiroshima. This is
another powerful recording of melding Asian culture with jazz, Hiroshima’s
13th recording in 25 years of making records.”
JazzWeek

“…exemplifies Hiroshima’s distinctive aesthetics: the blending of Eastern
and contemporary jazz sensibilities, and the use of both traditional Asian
and modern instruments.”
JazzTimes

“Wow, after taking a glimpse at the career of Hiroshima one can’t help but
celebrate with an enormous passion for the group’s diversity in music with
great joy on this commemorative occasion titled Obon. As a group, Hiroshima
multicultural and universal appeal has blessed us with their poignant
diversity by blending and integrating their distinctive, ambient, exotic,
spiritual, and urban rhythms into one groovescape that continues to
resonate and captivate the minds, bodies and hearts of listeners
worldwide.”
Smooth Jazz News

“Other groups have tried Japanese jazz fusion, but none have lasted so long
or have been so successful.
WorldDiscoveries.net

“Full of sounds and movement that only this band can provide.”
ContemporaryJazz.com

“Obon offers a cocktail of ancient and new, young and old, east and west
and the result encapsulates the dedication and reverence of some of today's
finest exponents of Japanese and American idioms. If you haven't heard any
of Hiroshima's music yet, this is a good starting point and you will soon
be looking for those back catalogue albums to learn more about their
unusual musical adventure.”
EuroClubdeJazz.com